Deer, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

I usually prefer to go to Colorado in the fall to create landscape images, but I needed to be in Denver in early March anyway. So I headed south to the Great Sand Dunes and arrived February 28, 2008.  The temperature was 44 degrees, so pretty pleasant for photography. It can be much colder in late February.

Great Sand Dunes

In the middle of the day the sand is quite light in tone, like the sand you would see in a sandbox. But as the sun get lower and lower the dunes get darker. At the end of the day they can look chocolate brown.

Great Sand Dunes and Mt. Herard right before sunset.

One of the nice things about winter is the absence of human tracks in the sand.  It is a good idea to plan your walking path so your own footprints aren’t in the photo, unless, of course, you want them in the photo.